3D Print Filament Tracker vs Boatlink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
3D Print Filament Tracker
Manage your 3D printing filament inventory with real-time tracking of weight, usage, and remaining material. Log prints, analyze costs, and receive low stock alerts to avoid mid-print interruptions. Features an extensive database for quick additions and price comparisons.
- Track filament weight, brand, and material
- Monitor real-time usage and remaining filament
- Log print details and calculate usage
- Receive low stock alerts
- Extensive filament database with price comparison
- Cost tracking and analytics
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3D Filament Tracker - Never Run Out Mid-Print Again Take control of your 3D printing materials with the ultimate filament management app. Complete Filament Management • Track weight, brand, material type, and color for every spool • Monitor usage and remaining filament in real-time • Set custom storage locations to find spools instantly • Support for PLA, PETG, ABS, TPU, and all material types Smart Print Tracking • Log every print with project details and filament usage • Automatically calculate remaining weight after each print • Track print duration and add custom notes • Complete print history for every spool Insightful Statistics • Visual overview of your entire filament collection • Material and brand breakdowns • Usage analytics and cost tracking • Low stock alerts to prevent mid-print disasters Extensive Filament Database • Search thousands of filaments from popular brands • Quick-add with pre-filled specifications • Compare prices and find purchase links • Manual entry for custom or specialty filaments Smart Features • Dark and light mode support • Clean, intuitive interface designed for makers Perfect For: • Hobbyist 3D printer enthusiasts • Professional makers and designers • Educational institutions with multiple printers • Anyone managing multiple filament spools Why Choose 3D Filament Tracker? Never waste time searching for the right filament or discovering empty spools mid-print. Our app helps you stay organized, track costs, and ensure you always have the materials you need for your next project. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pibardos.llc/privacy-policy/
Boatlink
Facilitates hands-free communication among crew members on a boat, even in noisy environments. It creates a private, local network that requires no internet or phone signal, ensuring secure and reliable communication.
- Hands-free crew communication
- No internet or phone signal required
- Local network creation
- Encrypted communication
- Individual volume control
- Direct ringing feature
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A boat is a loud place. The engine is running, the wind takes your voice away, and the person you need is at the other end of the deck with a line in both hands. Boatlink puts the crew on one line. Every phone and tablet aboard talks to every other one, hands-free, so "ready on the bow" is heard at the helm in a normal voice. It needs no internet and no phone signal. On a boat with wifi, the router carries it. With no router, one person turns on Personal Hotspot in iOS Settings and the crew join that. Boatlink cannot switch a hotspot on for you — iOS does not let any app do that — so somebody has to do it by hand. GETTING ABOARD One person hosts. Their screen shows a QR code; everyone else points a camera at it and they are on. If a camera will not do the job — rain, dark, glare, a cracked screen — the host reads out a four-letter code instead, and the crew type that in with the boat's address. TALKING Open mic by default: speak and the crew hears you. Or switch to VOX, which opens the line when you start talking and closes it when you stop. Mute is one large control, sized to be hit with a glove on and found without looking. If someone is not answering, ring them. Their phone chimes, vibrates and flashes its camera light. They answer or they decline. LEVELS The ICS panel gives you a level for each person on the line, plus a master. Every level is yours alone. Turning the foredeck down on your phone changes nothing for anybody else, and the person you turned down is never told. MUSIC Everyone plays music in their own app. Boatlink can show the crew what you have on, as text, so they can put the same thing on. Boatlink plays no audio itself, and it cannot read your music app — you type the track in. PRIVACY Nothing leaves the boat. No account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Traffic between phones is encrypted with AES-256-GCM under a key derived from the boat's own code, so a phone in the next berth can neither join the line nor read what is on it. IF THE HOST GOES DOWN If the phone that is hosting runs its battery flat or goes over the side, the rest of the crew re-form around another phone in about three seconds. Nobody types anything in again. WHAT IT NEEDS Two devices, at least. One phone on its own shows an empty "find the boat" screen, because there is no boat to find. All devices on the same network — the boat's wifi, or a Personal Hotspot somebody has turned on. Permission to use the local network, which iOS asks for the first time you host or join. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO YET It does not relay from phone to phone. If there is no router and no hotspot, there is no line. It does not reach anyone who is ashore or otherwise off the boat's network. Ringing does not wake a locked phone the way an incoming call does. It has no alarms of any kind. Man overboard, anchor watch and alarm handling belong to the full Sea Glass Cockpit product, not to this app. There is no chat, and no music service is connected to it. Boatlink is free, and it stays free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boatlink at 5.0 against 3D Print Filament Tracker's 3.0. Boatlink also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). 3D Print Filament Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. 3D Print Filament Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Boatlink asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boatlink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3D Print Filament Tracker has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of 3D Print Filament Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boatlink's.
3D Print Filament Tracker ships an update monthly, Boatlink fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 3D Print Filament Tracker | Boatlink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pibardos LLC | Robert wood |
Customer experience
3D Print Filament Tracker
Boatlink
In-app purchases
3D Print Filament Tracker
- 3D Filaments Monthly$2.991 Month
- 3D-Filaments Yearly3 Days trial$7.991 Year
Boatlink
No in-app purchases
Questions
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